LOUGHBOROUGH MP Nicky Morgan hit national headlines this week when she spoke about what she feels the Conservative Party needs to do in order to win the next General Election.

Speaking at a Bright Blue meeting in London, which is a think tank for young Conservatives, she said that the party needs to be more positive about the work it does rather than it simply coming across that “we’re against this, we’re against that, we don’t like them, we don’t want them here, we don’t want them doing that”.

One national paper interpreted Mrs Morgan’s speech as calling for the Tories to stop “peddling hate” to win over women voters.

Mrs Morgan told the Echo that was not the case.

She said: “We need a positive message if we want to win people over especially younger people and that’s gathered from talks I have had with people in Loughborough.

“From a local level we are always positive about what we do and on a national level it can get lost in translation.”